Birds around Brussels
Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium
Every measure here is worked out per 5 degree square, so this covers the wider area around Brussels (50° to 55° latitude, 0° to 5° longitude, about 550 km across), not the city alone. Counts are shares of all birds records in the same weeks, so busier stations do not inflate them (methods).
Arrived in the last four weeks
- Brambling around 12 October
- Eurasian Wigeon around 12 October
- Pink-footed Goose around 5 October
- Snow Bunting around 5 October
- Common Blackbird around 5 October
Expected in the next six weeks
- Greater White-fronted Goose around 17 November
- Buff-bellied Pipit around 17 November
- Bohemian Waxwing around 17 November
- Eurasian Bittern around 17 November
- European Goldfinch around 17 November
- Short-toed Treecreeper around 17 November
- European Greenfinch around 17 November
- Hooded Crow around 17 November
- Eurasian Jackdaw around 17 November
- Eurasian Blue Tit around 17 November
- Great Spotted Woodpecker around 17 November
- Middle Spotted Woodpecker around 17 November (weak evidence)
- Black Woodpecker around 17 November
- Rock Bunting around 17 November
- Cirl Bunting around 17 November
- Peregrine Falcon around 17 November
- Common Chaffinch around 17 November
- Eurasian Coot around 17 November
- Red-throated Loon around 17 November
- European Crested Tit around 17 November
- Red Kite around 17 November
- Bearded Reedling around 17 November
- Great Tit around 17 November
- House Sparrow around 17 November
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow around 17 November
- Grey Partridge around 17 November
- Eurasian Magpie around 17 November
- Willow Tit around 17 November
- Dunnock around 17 November
- Eurasian Bullfinch around 17 November
Dates are last year's first regular records after at least six weeks away, with each species' own uncertainty on its page. Each species page can email you when it turns up.
Most recorded, last eight weeks
| Species | Records | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| European Robin Erithacus rubecula | 7,850,810 | 300.4 |
| Eurasian Jackdaw Corvus monedula | 3,402,156 | 130.2 |
| Eurasian Magpie Pica pica | 1,861,115 | 71.2 |
| Dunnock Prunella modularis | 1,171,039 | 44.8 |
| Great Tit Parus major | 1,039,287 | 39.8 |
| Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus | 701,428 | 26.8 |
| Eurasian Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus | 651,469 | 24.9 |
| Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri | 606,598 | 23.2 |
| Redwing Turdus iliacus | 515,929 | 19.7 |
| Rook Corvus frugilegus | 505,968 | 19.4 |
| House Sparrow Passer domesticus | 481,971 | 18.4 |
| Eurasian Wren Troglodytes troglodytes | 467,472 | 17.9 |
| Common Blackbird Turdus merula | 451,340 | 17.3 |
| Eurasian Coot Fulica atra | 425,507 | 16.3 |
| Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita | 389,059 | 14.9 |
How well this area is covered
Watched in 12 of the last 12 weeks for birds (enough records to count; unwatched weeks say nothing about absence). Active stations here in the last 30 days: 329 BirdWeather. Add a station to fill the gap.